SLC.20.012 – Smart, Interactive Playgrounds
Route: Smart, liveable cities
cluster question: 112 Can we use Big Data and Big Data collection to define values, generate insights, and get answers?
Children like to play; at schoolyards, sport clubs, in residential areas. Playgrounds are areas where children gather when they have […]
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SLC.20.002 – Fundaments fOR climatE-robust Cities And Societal implemenTation (FORECAST)
Route: Smart, liveable cities
cluster question: 030 How can we keep our densely populated country liveable?
This initiative’s overall objective is to provide urban stakeholders in the Netherlands with an integral approach for creating climate-resilient cities. […]
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SD.20.003 – Building sustainable and inclusive urban futures: incremental housing and city-making flows in the Global South (HOUSEFLOW)
Route: Sustainable development goals for inclusive global development
cluster question: 045 What are the implications and challenges associated with worldwide urbanisation?
Incremental housing is a key driver of urbanisation worldwide. HOUSEFLOW explores incremental building practices as a key vantage point to […]
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RGM.20.011 – Modeling the dietary impact on health with engineered human liver microtissues
Route: Regenerative medicine: game changer moving to broad areas of application
cluster question: 101 Can we model the human body and use smart technologies for health, nutritional, and toxicity research, drastically reducing the use of laboratory animals at the same time?
Better model system are urgently needed to study the impact of diet, nutrients and toxins on human health. This is […]
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QNR.20.002 – Materials and Approaches for Green ICT
Route: The quantum / nano-revolution
cluster question: 114 How can we connect 'things' (hardware) all the time and everywhere and boost processing speed while using less energy?
The explosive growth of digital data use and storage has led to an enormous rise in energy consumption of our […]
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PM.20.058 – Creating and implementing the value-based ‘Digital Twin’ for prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases from an early moment in the life course
Route: Personalised medicine: the individual at the centre
cluster question: 105 How can Big Data and technological innovation (e-health) contribute to health care?
Cardiovascular diseases are still an important and costly health (care) problem, usually diagnosed later in life. Pregnancy is already earlier […]
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PM.20.051 – Towards theranostic ultrasound for brain diseases
Route: Personalised medicine: the individual at the centre
cluster question: 083 How do neurological, psychiatric, and mental disorders arise, and how can we prevent, mitigate, or cure them?
Brain disorders impose a huge burden on society at large. The treatment challenge is to normalize brain function in affected […]
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PM.20.037 – Personalized nuclear interventions by proven knowledge
Route: Personalised medicine: the individual at the centre
cluster question: 104 How do we develop minimally invasive techniques and interventions for diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment?
Curing cancer is one of the main challenges in Western healthcare. With over 3.5 million new cases each year, cancer […]
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PM.20.014 – Healthy loading to combat osteoarthritis: Leveraging molecular variations in load bearing capacity for individualized movement advice
Route: Personalised medicine: the individual at the centre
cluster question: 102 How can we develop new drugs and treatment methods that will keep us as healthy and vigorous as possible?
Osteoarthritis. a painful and disabling joint disease, affects over 1.2 million people in the Netherlands. There is no cure for […]
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PM.20.007 – A modular technology-driven platform to make progress in rare cancer diagnostics and outcomes
Route: Personalised medicine: the individual at the centre
cluster question: 105 How can Big Data and technological innovation (e-health) contribute to health care?
Our overall aim is to create a nationwide data platform to enable frontier science and technology development in the field […]
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